Bernstein-von mises theorem for linear functionals of the density

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1489-1523

  Rivoirard, Vincent ^a   Rousseau, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Bayesian nonparametric; Bernstein von Mises; Rates of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872077321     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-AOS1004     Document Type: Article

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